Dugu Bo remained motionless, but the Yin Yang Twin-Headed Serpent was sent flying nearly a hundred meters by the aftershocks of the explosion, though it didn't suffer any substantial damage.
"Petrification Divine Light!"
Dugu Bo didn't give them a chance to catch their breath. He immediately injected his spirit power into his head Spirit Bone, and two beams of light shot out from his eyes.
"Roar!"
The Yin Yang Twin-Headed Serpent flapped its wings and twisted its body, stabilizing itself while letting out a roar. The power of Yin and Yang lightning surged from their bodies.
The two different attributes of lightning converged to form a half-black, half-blue shield.
However, they ultimately underestimated Dugu Bo. His Petrification Divine Light came from the Medusa skull, and its petrification effect couldn't be exempted even by energy.
The Yin Yang lightning shield was petrified the moment it touched the Petrification Divine Light.
Dugu Bo seized the opportunity to flash close. As his right arm bone lit up, a shimmering golden light shone on his right claw, and his entire right arm instantly transformed into a golden right hand.
"Bang!"
Dugu Bo punched open the petrified Yin Yang lightning shield, and with an undiminished momentum, he slammed the equally petrified Yin Yang Twin-Headed Serpent inside it into the ground.
"Boom!"
The petrified Yin Yang Twin-Headed Serpent heavily smashed a considerable pit into the ground.
"Li Qing!"
Dugu Bo shouted, because he feared that if he delayed even a moment longer, the Yin Yang Twin-Headed Serpent would die under his petrification Spirit Ability, as he was already a peak Douluo.
"Pfft—"
Li Qing quickly rushed forward and unleashed a full-strength punch at the petrified Yin Yang Twin-Head.
"Bang!"
Petrification merely turned it into a stone statue; its hardness wasn't too high. Li Qing successfully shattered it with one punch, and a black spirit ring subsequently emerged.
Dugu Bo said, "Hurry and absorb it."
Li Qing nodded. Even though he hadn't expended much spirit power, he still briefly recovered before sitting in front of the corpse and drawing the spirit ring onto himself.
Spirit ring absorption began.
Dugu Bo, meanwhile, took advantage of his spirit ring absorption to search through the rubble. Spirit Beasts of this level had a high probability of dropping Spirit Bones.
Sure enough, he found a right arm bone.
A fifty-thousand-year dual-attribute right arm bone, and the spirit ring of this Spirit Beast had also been absorbed by Li Qing. Unless it was a hundred-thousand-year spirit ring, even seventy or eighty-thousand-year Spirit Bones might not compare to this one.
Li Qing's spirit ring absorption this time was much easier than his fourth ring.
After breaking through the bottleneck, his spirit power level also soared by five levels, reaching level fifty-five. This was the benefit of continuously absorbing spirit rings beyond his limit.
Starting from his third ring, he had always absorbed spirit rings two major realms above his own, which was the principle of 'one step fast, every step fast.'
As for the Spirit Ability—
"Listen—"
Li Qing, perceiving the feedback from the Spirit Ability, felt a bit vexed. It wasn't because the Spirit Ability effect was bad, but because its effect was so similar to the Palm Thunder rumored in his previous life?
Yin lightning gathers in the palm, which can directly attack enemies or be projected from a distance, causing massive explosive damage.
Isn't this just Palm Thunder?
Li Qing suddenly thought of something and switched to his Mysterious Bird state. As expected, the Spirit Ability in his Mysterious Bird state was also similar to Palm Thunder.
However, the lightning in the Mysterious Bird state was Yang lightning.
"You're a lucky kid."
Seeing him awaken, Dugu Bo smiled and handed him the Spirit Bone in his hand.
"Right arm bone?"
Li Qing was a bit confused. If he remembered correctly, Xiao Wu's Spirit Bone was a right arm bone, right? It seemed heaven didn't want him to absorb Spirit Bones below a hundred thousand years.
To be honest.
As a transmigrator, he looked down on Spirit Bones below a hundred thousand years, even if this Spirit Bone was of the same origin as his fifth spirit ring.
Unless there was no other choice.
Dugu Bo saw him take the Spirit Bone and silently put it away, couldn't help but glare, "Kid, are your ambitions too big? You're still not satisfied?"
Li Qing said, "Let's wait a bit longer. What if she also drops a right arm bone?"
Dugu Bo suddenly understood.
He naturally knew who Li Qing was referring to. Such things were hard to say, because unless a Spirit Beast sacrificed itself, the location of the dropped Spirit Bone was random.
"So, what now? Research?"
Li Qing nodded, but as for how to research specifically, he was a bit unsure at the moment.
However, one direction was certain: absorbing the death qi in the canyon and finding a way to leave the canyon without instantly dying.
He didn't want to stay here forever.
Secondly, there were the side effects of the Death Canyon's death qi.
It might not be that simple to research this thoroughly, because the erosive nature of that death qi wasn't very strong, making it difficult to observe any changes in a short time.
Otherwise, it wouldn't require a month of normal cultivation before it became impossible to clear.
"Let's go outside the canyon."
Adhering to the principle of 'easy first, then hard,' Li Qing planned to first experiment with how to ensure he wouldn't instantly die after absorbing the death qi. This would require experimenting outside the canyon.
"Alright!"
Dugu Bo nodded, then quickly brought Li Qing outside the canyon.
Although the death qi in the canyon was very dense, there was a clear boundary at the canyon's entrance. The death qi seemed to be bound by something, unable to cross this boundary.
Li Qing stood by the boundary, pondering for a while, then tried to draw a wisp of death qi beyond the boundary.
Unexpectedly, he actually succeeded.
"Sizzle—"
The wisp of death qi, the moment it crossed that boundary, was like gunpowder ignited, rapidly burning away, then turning into wisps of black smoke and returning within the boundary.
Li Qing wasn't surprised. After all, Dugu Bo had already said that anyone with death qi in their body would instantly die upon leaving the canyon.
So, the question was, how could he ensure he was an exception, or rather, how could he confirm he wasn't an exception? Only by confirming this could he make more attempts.
It's all death qi, can they be fused?
The death qi of Death Canyon seemed similar to the death qi in his body, but there was actually a difference. After being absorbed into his body, the two showed no signs of fusion at all.
Like two completely different entities.
Acting on his thought, Li Qing immediately drew out a wisp of his own death qi, then drew in a wisp of Death Canyon's death qi, intending to make them merge into one.
The result.
The two types of death qi, which had never shown signs of fusion within his body, instantly completed fusion outside his body.
No.
To be precise, it shouldn't be fusion, but rather devouring and assimilation.
His death qi was devoured and assimilated the moment it came into contact with the Death Canyon's death qi, turning into death qi identical to that of Death Canyon.
Death qi with erosive properties.
And even the connection between Li Qing and that wisp of death qi was severed at that instant. He could no longer control it as he controlled other death qi within his body.
When it was inside his body, the Death Canyon's death qi was clearly not so exaggerated. How did the difference become so great outside his body?
Dugu Bo had been watching quietly. In his sight, Li Qing had been standing there blankly, merely reaching out to guide the air.
Because he couldn't see the death qi at all.